Tewfik Abdullah (also Tawfik Abdallah and variations, Arabic: توفيق عبد الله) (23 June 1896 – 1963) was an Egyptian football player and manager.

[5] The Scottish Derby County player Tommy Barbour encountered Abdullah first, when he served with the Derbyshire Yeomanry in Egypt during the Great War.

He played his first match in the First Division in October, where he scored the first goal for the Rams in a 3–0 home win against Manchester City.

Abdullah, whose first name Tewfik was soon transformed into his nickname "Toothpick", thus became the second Egyptian in professional English football after Hussein Hegazi, who played with him in the 1920 Olympics and who spent some years with Dulwich Hamlet FC in the Isthmian League and in 1911 completed a match with London's Fulham FC in the Second Division.

[9] Eventually, he moved to Bridgend Town in Wales, which was to be 13th in the Western Division of the Southern Football League.

At the beginning of March 1924 he returned to England and joined Hartlepools United in the Third Division North, staying until early May.

After the game, it was reported that he had increased the impact of the Hartlepools attack significantly and that he had gained a lot of weight and strength since he left Derby County.

[11][12][13][14] As a result of the expansion of the American Soccer League for the 1924/25 season from eight to twelve teams, the steady stream of British, especially Scottish, footballers to the United States increased.

The club withdrew early in the season and Abdullah only played eleven times for the Connecticut side.

Until the end of the year, he then played eight games for the New York Nationals which were created at the beginning of the season by the controversial entrepreneur Charles Stoneham by transferring the Indiana Flooring franchise to the east coast metropolis.

Once he returned to Egypt he joined Al Ahly SC of Cairo, winning the Sultan Hussein Cup of 1929 contributing one goal to the 2-0 victory against Scottish military side Dirhams in the final.

It is reported, that in 1932 he returned to North America, joining Montreal Carsteel in Canada, where he saw out his playing years.

The club won the Coupe du Québec, the Cup of Quebec, in the years of 1932 to 1934, and he might have been involved in the winning of these trophies.